RE-IMAGINING THE FORMAT OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS:

 DISSEMINATING SCHOLARSHIP THROUGH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

TWU Symposium for Faculty and Students 

October 23 and 24, 2009

DENTON CAMPUS ACT 301 

The TWU Departments of Dance and Health Studies with the Graduate School and the TWU Libraries are sponsoring a symposium on the TWU Denton campus to discuss possibilities for presenting academic research in alternative digital formats.  Foundational to this discussion is the TWU Graduate School’s announcement concerning the submission of theses and dissertations online. 

VIDEOCONFERENCED TO: PARKLAND DED 155, PRESBYTERIAN DPH 109, HOUSTON HSH 3310

The audio of the keynote address will be available live through the TWU Second Life Island.  Instructions for how to create an account and avatar in Second Life can be found in the attached document:

Getting_Started_in_Second_Life_revised_October_122_(3).pdf

SCHEDULE (All sessions are in ACT 301 and videoconferenced to TWU locations):

Friday, October 23:

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon: 

Keynote speaker, Dr. Kevin Tavin

The provocative nature of visual culture and how it is “read” as scholarship

Discussion and question/answer session included.

Kevin Tavin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at The Ohio State University. He holds a BFA, M.Ed., and a Ph.D. in art education and has taught K-12 and post-secondary courses since 1990. Tavin's research focuses on visual culture, critical pedagogy, psychoanalytic theory, and art education. His work has been published in numerous national and international art education journals including Studies in Art Education, Art Education, Visual Arts Research, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, The Journal of Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Research in Art Education, InSEA journal, and NAEA News. He has published numerous book chapters and is currently co-editing two texts on visual culture and leadership in art education. He has presented keynote lectures and papers in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S.

1:00-2:45:

Dr. Ruth Johnson, Associate Dean of the TWU Graduate School, and Sherilyn Bird, Director of the TWU Libraries

Online submissions of theses and dissertations: Demonstration of a broad spectrum of possibilities

Stephany Compton, TWU Libraries

Issues in the archiving and copyright of digital information:  Where are we and where might we go? 

3:00-4:00: 

Kim Grover-Haskin, ISS, Director, TWU Instructional Operations

Digital technologies and the university campus:  Where are we and where might we go? 

4:00-5:00: 

Dr. Michael Raisinghani, School of Management, Business and Economics

Disseminating Scholarship through Digital Technologies:  Opportunities and Challenges

Saturday, October 24, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (ACT 301/ no videoconferencing): 

Concluding remarks and thoughts concerning where we are and where we might go from here with Dr. Kevin Tavin

Send all questions and ideas to Linda Caldwell, Department of Dance (lcaldwell2@twu.edu) or Jody Oomen-Early, Department of Health Studies (joomen@twu.edu)